סוֹף
sof · end
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5490 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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sof (סוֹף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “end”.
Where something finishes.
How to say it
sof
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The last part; the back.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- end ×4
- rear ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Chronicles 20:16
Tomorrow go down against them; look, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the brook, facing the wilderness of Jeruel.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11
Everything he has made beautiful in its time; also eternity he has put in their heart, without the human being finding out the work that Elohim has done from the beginning to the end.
- Ecclesiastes 7:2
Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, because that is the end of every human being, and the living will lay it to his heart.
- Ecclesiastes 12:13
The end of the matter; all has been heard: fear Elohim and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of the human being.
- Joel 2:20
And the northerner I will remove far from you, and I will drive him into a land dry and desolate, his front toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea; and his stench will go up, and his foul smell will go up, for he has done great things.